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The planning process is not only centralised but also personalised. Hence, the political leaders and bureaucrats can make the planning wheel move ... In a least developed country like Nepal, economic planning is deployed as a tool for eliminating poverty, reducinginequality and lowering unemployment ... The post Why plans fail in Nepal ... ....

0 Comments Auto-enrolment pension 'will increase inequality' ... "This approach does nothing to address the inherent gender differences in terms of employment history and is likely to further increase rather than reduce gender inequalities in relation to the old age pension."....

The report emphasized that achieving the SDGs fundamentally requires decoupling economic growth from environmental degradation, while at the same time, reducing social and gender inequalities in wealth, income and access to opportunities....

But now, the barons of big business are putting on a softer face, proclaiming that their "fundamental commitment" is not merely to serve shareholder greed but also to benefit workers, reduceinequality, protect the environment and serve the whole community ...Corporate elites won't fix inequality for us; they're the ones doing it to us....

PopeFrancis this week exhorted the political leaders of Mauritius, known as a tax haven and enclave for shell companies, to promote policies that reduce income inequality and to reject “the temptation of an idolatrous ......

... mass detention of immigrants in inhumane conditions to efforts to reduce nonwhite political power through the 2020 Census ... This includes reducing income inequality and raising the minimum wage, expanding access to health care, ending gerrymandering and strengthening voting rights....

do to address yawning income and wealth inequality? ... they reduce, rather than increase, charitable giving and consumption, in proportion to the wealth lost through the tax ... The calculations underscore how a wealth tax of just a few percentage points might erode fortunes over time and presumably reduce wealth inequality....